Wendy Phillips

She holds a PhD in Sanskrit from the University of Cambridge, a Master's degree in Sanskrit Studies from the University of Edinburgh and a Bachelor's degree in Spanish Language and Literature from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). Her doctoral dissertation received the D. K. Award for the Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation on Sanskrit, granted by the International Association of Sanskrit Studies (IASS). She is currently a researcher at the Center for Classical Studies of the Institute of Philological Research (IIFL-UNAM), where she is dedicated to the study of classical India. Since January 2012, she has served as IASS Regional Director for Latin America. In 2014 she received the National University Distinction Award for Young Scholars (RDUNJA) for her teaching work. Her main areas of research are Sanskrit epics, textual criticism and compared literature.

Publications

• Cariños y recuerdos de una pandemia
• The chant of the boy with the eight humps
• Inventing India: Disciplinary Representations from History, Humanities and the Arts